Space Rocks

What are asteroids made of?

• gases

• Rock, metal, and other elements

• snow and ice

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What is the term for a rocky body that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Moon

Which of these can become a shooting star?

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Meteroids

• Planets

Our solar system's main asteroid belt is found in between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Meteoroids are similar to but much smaller than asteroids.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Meteoroid can come from, asteroids, comets, or Moon and Mars.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Asteroids are left over materials from the formation of the solar system.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Meteoroids can be either came from: collision of asteroids or chunking of comets as moving in the solar system.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Comets and asteroids are the biggest space rocks in the solar system.

• TRUE

• FALSE

These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Meteroids